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The Andhra Pradesh authorities has announced that the Amaravati Festival of Cinema, Culture and Literature, popularly called ‘Avakai’, volition beryllium held successful Vijayawada from January 8 to 10.
Addressing the media astatine the Secretariat connected December 22, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Cinematography Kandula Durgesh said the festival would beryllium organised astatine Punnami Ghat and Bhavani Island, with a absorption connected Telugu cinema and literature, portion responding to the increasing nationalist involvement successful determination storytelling.
Envisioned by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, the festival volition beryllium organised by the A.P. Tourism Authority and produced by Teamwork Arts. The three-day lawsuit volition diagnostic music, creation and theatre performances, sheet discussions, puppetry, poesy readings, mushaira sessions successful Telugu and Urdu, and theatre workshops. Visitors tin besides instrumentality portion successful practice trails, ferry rides, interactive installations and curated culinary experiences, according to a property enactment issued by the department.
Mr. Chandrababu Naidu is apt to inaugurate the festival on with Mr. Kandula Durgesh, Ambassador of the European Union to India H. E. Herve Delphin and Managing Director of Teamwork Arts Sanjoy K. Roy. The opening performances volition see Her Frames, Her Fire by Omaggio Performing Company, followed by The Music, Masti and the Magic, a philharmonic created for ‘Avakai’, directed by Sanjoy K. Roy and choreographed by Gilles Chuyen.
The festival volition besides showcase works by StoryHour UK and Rasa United, too poesy sessions featuring Azhar Iqbal, Iqbal Ashhar, Khushbir Singh Shaad, Nusrat Mehdi, Mrunalini, Popular Meruthi, Saif Nizami and Sardar Saleem. Aaj Rang Hai, a peculiar collaboration, volition bring unneurotic the Nizami Bandhu and the Anirudh Varma Collective.
Workshops led by maestro practitioners specified arsenic Tuhon Aditya Roy, Nathoo Lal Solanki, Shameem and Gilles Chuyen volition beryllium conducted to promote learning and taste exchange. Live performances volition besides beryllium portion of the programme.
Acclaimed transgression writer S. Hussain Zaidi, filmmaker Sudhir Mishra and screenwriter and novelist Yandamuri Veerendranath volition instrumentality portion successful a treatment titled Pure Evil: Anti-Heroes of Cinema.
